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An update to the extremely popular -9999PX image replacement technique.
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Apple iPad 3 Media Event
“We have something you really have to see. And touch.”
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Trouble with @font-face Thickness in WebKit.
While Webkits default subpixel-antialiased type looks good in many cases, if you’re using a font service like Typekit many of those fonts tend to render thick in Webkit. In my opinion WebKit’s text rendering is too thick and bloated by default. This is usually a problem that can be fixed by applying the following webkit vendor-prefixed property as mentioned in a blog post by Max Voltar:
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
We recently ran into a situation where we were using @font-face to include a custom font in a mobile website we were developing. The type was still rendering thick even after we tried common fixes like applying a text-shadow to text and the -webkit-font-smoothing fix mentioned above. The solution was to apply a 3D transformation of 0px to the elements that we’re too thick.
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);
The image above shows the before and after results when this rule is applied. By applying this rule to our CSS it also eliminates the “pop” you get when animating the element. The end result gave us consistent font rendering across all webkit browsers.
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Adobe Releases Photoshop Touch For iPad 2. Eager to try this out.
I’m very interested in seeing how much you can really do with this app.
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OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better.
Mountain Lion looks like it will be a promising follow-up to OS X Lion. It will bring over popular iOS apps and features like Messages, Reminders, Notes, Twitter integration and Notification Center. Mountain Lion will also expand it’s iCloud integration by allowing you to store documents on iCloud and access them from your iPad, iPhone and Mac.
Additionally, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has an excellent article about how Apple’s Phil Schiller revealed Mountain Lion to him in his own person “Apple Media Event”.
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If you haven’t already, check out Path 2.0 for iPhone (or Android). The UI design is just incredible. The attention to detail is meticulous and there is a lot of innovative functionality going on.
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Best jQuery Plugins of 2011
This is a great list of jQuery plugins. Many of these plugins I’ve used before and but there a few that I’ve never heard about but they look awesome.
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Adobe Withdraws from Mobile Flash Battlefront
Toolkits such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch are hitting full stride with mature development frameworks that enable HTML5 developers and designers to make native iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry applications using their existing skill sets.
Adobe finally admits defeat years after Steve Jobs predicted it.
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A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Mona Simpson provides, in daring yet delicate prose, the most beautiful and intimate portrait of Steve Jobs we will likely ever see.
This brought up such a wealth of emotion for me I had to pause several times to get through it. It may likely be the same for you.
If you do nothing else today, grab a box of tissues and read this.
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue
News of Jobs’ passing first broke on Wednesday night. This issue was on newsstands by Sunday, at least, or maybe even Saturday night. Which means the Bloomberg Businessweek team must have been working like mad to make this happen, probably with very little sleep and almost assuredly under the duress of simultaneously mourning a man that many of them probably felt very strongly about. That effort is an incredibly fitting, touching and commendable tribute to Steve Jobs himself.
This looks fantastic. If I can find it, I’d love to pick it up.
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